Niles Township

Towns: Granville - Albany [north half] [S4] -

Location:
Coordinates: 40°20′32″N 85°16′53″W

Other Names:

Cemeteries:
Buckles:
Granville:
Memorial Park:

Population:
1850: 924;
1860: 1170;
1870: 1140;
1880: 1154 [S5, page 3] - [S6, page 275]

Maps:
1870: [S2] -
1874: [S9, page 14] - Granville -
1876: [S7] -

Schools:

Center School:
- Class photo, 1914 - [Album of Yesteryear - Muncie Star, 15 Apr 1990, page 5B] - Doc2741.pdf
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Oak Grove School:
   - Closed 1920, 1904 students still living in 1946 listed - [Our Neighborhood by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star, 4 Jan 1994] - Doc2744.pdf
   - [Our Neighborhood by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star, 12 Jan 1994] - Doc2743.pdf (1946 reunion) See Muncie Star, 2 Sept 1946 for Photo)
   - [Our Neighborhood by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star, 18 Jan 1994] - Doc2731.pdf
   - [Our Neighborhood by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star, 1 March 1994, Page 4A] - Doc2740.pdf
   - "Oak Grove School, School District #3, Niles Twp. Del. Co. 1889" [Delaware County Historical Alliance Home Tour Sheet, 5 June 1988] - Doc2742.pdf
   - Replaced an earlier building which had been located 1/4 mile east of Oak Grove location - [Source unknown]
   - School District #3 - Italianate design - Also know as Wingate School. Land purchased from James W. & Lucinda Wingate Nov 1888. Location: Alban-Eaton Pike, Section 27 -
      - [Source Unknown]
   - Trustee: D. N. Peterson - First Teacher: Elmer J. Davis, 30 Sept 1889, paid $40 per month - School year Sept - March - 34 Students, all grades[Source unknown]
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Wingate School: (See Oak Grove School)

Misc. School Information:
- "Niles Twp. Teacher Contracts and Reports 1889-1895", Contributed by Joyce Colleen Libes. Delaware County Genealogist and Historian, June 1996, Vol. 5, No. 2, page 36 - Doc2859.pdf

Niles Township Delinquent Taxpayers, 1847 [Delaware County Genealogist and Historian, March 1996, p 15, 16] - Doc2738.pdf

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Page 57, 58: Sec 9, 10, 11 Easley Creek
59, 60: Sec. 13, School #1, NE Qtr. "Green Street School"
60: Sec. 15, School #5, NE corner
60B: David Cammack Photo, Postmaster of Muncie
63: Sec 19, 20, Easley Creek
66: Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church
68: Granville, Georgetown Story, Sec. 31
69: Sec. 33, Ellis Hills, SW Qtr.
71: Schools

Sources

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Google Maps:

Map: Asher, Adams & Higgins. New Topographical Atlas and Gazetteer of Indiana, multiple counties including Delaware, Blackford, Madison, and Hamilton and others. Indianapolis: Higgins & Ryan, 1870, pages 19, 20. David Rumsey Map Collection. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~33585~1171285:New-topographical-atlas-and-gazette?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No# Accessed 28 Feb 2012. Acc002079/Ph9387.jpg

Map Detail: Niles Township, Delaware County

WikiPedia Article

An Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana. Philadelphia: Griffin, Gordon & Co, 1887, reprinted., Knightstown, Indiana: Mayhill Publications, 1971

Helm, T.B. History of Delaware County, Indiana. Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1881, reprint ed., Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc., 1976

Map: Delaware County, Indiana, 1876. (Published by Baskin, Forster & Co. Lakeside Building Chicago, 1876. Engraved & Printed by Chas. Shober & Co. Props. Of Chicago Lithographing Co.) David Rumsey Map Collection. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~23110~790090:Map-of-Delaware-County---Published-# Accessed, 27 Feb 2012. Acc002078/Ph9386-001 to 041.jpg

Detail: Niles Township

From 1876 - Delaware County Map

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Book: Road Names of Delaware County, Indiana. Muncie, Indiana: Delaware County Historical Society, 2005. Bk3641, page 15

Book: Map of Delaware County Indiana: Indexed and Printed in Atlas Form from 1874 Wall Map. Original: Philadelphia: A.L. Klingman, 1874. Reprint: Muncie, Indiana: D & N Research, 1989. Bk3642

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"Delaware County's Delinquent Taxpayers of 1842" - Delaware County, Genealogist and Historian, March 1995, page 13 - Doc2904.pdf

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"Delaware County Delinquent Taxpayers of 1847" Transcribed by Joyce Colleen Libes. Delaware County Genealogist and Historian, March 1996, pages 15, 16 - Doc2908.pdf

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Ellis, John S. Our County: [Delaware County, Indiana] Its History and Early Settlement by Townships. (1890). Evansville, Indiana: Whipporwill Publications, Reproduction, 1987. Bk2082. Read Online -

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Flook, Chris. Lost Towns of Delaware County, Indiana. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2019. Bk4212

http://lostdelawarecounty.chrisflook.org/

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